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"Commerson's valet on the trip was Jeanne Baré, who dressed in male clothes. When Baré went ashore, the Tahitians gathered around, shouting that she was a woman. How they immediately discerned her sex, which had eluded her French compatriots living in close quarters for almost five months, remains a mystery. Baré told Bougainville that the prospect of going around the world had 'raised her curiosity.' Bougainville dryly commented that once her gender was disclosed, 'it was difficult to prevent the sailors from alarming her modesty,' but Baré completed the trip and became the first female circumnavigator."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 191
December 28, 2016